Arguably most significant of all the new rules announced today by World Superbike organisers Dorna are that there will be less stringent homologation rules in terms of outright numbers of new machines...

The last day of the final 2015 season group WSBK tests at Jerez saw the top WSB riders lap as fast if not faster than the top GP riders, with Tom Sykes (KRT) posting a 1’39.316 lap that was easily the...

2014 World Champion Sylvain Guintoli continues to be amazed by the performance of his new Pata Yamaha WSBK machine this early in its development cycle.
He said after day one, “I immediately felt the...

After pulling out of the tests at Jerez after only part of day one had been completed, Honda WSBK rider Michael van der Mark will now wee two specialists to examine his problem, according to his team...

After one day of rest, having worked on track at Jerez with his KRT squad on Monday and Tuesday, world champion Jonathan Rea was on track again on Thursday.
With an all-new 2016 Ninja ZX-10R to still...

In making a return to the track after recovery from what was his second vertebrae injury of the 2015 season, Aruba.it Racing Ducati WSBK rider Davide Giugliano has had to ease his way back into action...

Chaz Davies made up for some track time lost to bad weather at Motorland Aragon last week by working through some major component changes on his official Aruba.it Racing Ducati WSBK Panigale vee-twin...

The fourth day of tests at Jerez for the WSBK riders was the third for the Kawasaki Racing Team riders, but they dominated the time sheets for those running transponders, with Sykes on a 1’40.316 and...

Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha) was not running a transponder on his new YZF-R1 machine on his first test day at Jerez but independent sources say he did a 1’40.8 best to make him the quickest rider on day...

On the first two days of the tests at Jerez Leon Camier (MV Agusta Reparto Corse) gave way to new test rider Marco Melandri, but on Wednesday he got to ride how own bike again with some improvements...

A quick lap, one of many from Jonathan Rea (KRT), saw him edge away from the chasing pack once again at Jerez on the second day of testing. His 1’40.139 was done on a race tyre but was tantalisingly...

On the first day of the Jerez tests Jonathan Rea (KRT) was as fast as we have come to expect and again he was out ahead of the rest with a 1’40.826 lap, only closely followed by his own team-mate Tom...

On an opening day at Jerez, when Kawasaki’s normally metronomic riders each had crashes, Tom Sykes had not one but two of them, as he and his team tried to push the boundaries a little in set-up and...

The Althea Racing BMW squad makes its first test at Jerez with their new line-up of Markus Reiterberger and Jordi Torres. Reiti is no stranger to a BMW after his stellar IDM career but Jordi Torres –...

Having lost his chance of the 2015 WSS championship at Jerez last season French rider Jules Cluzel returned to the track with his MV Agusta squad for his first test, the last one of 2015. He broke his...

The World Superbike championship has brought to an end months of waiting by finally released a provisional calendar for the 2016 season.
The new schedule doesn’t bring the massive shake-up expected by...

Former 125GP podium finisher Randy Krummenacher will make the step from Moto2 to World Supersport for 2016, as he joins reigning champion Kenan Sofuoglu at the Puccetti Kawasaki squad.
The Swiss rider...

After an often highly successful 2015 season in most of the categories it has competed in the Yamaha YZF-R1 took its first track-bound laps in full WSB specification on Tuesday 3 November in the hands...

The FIM and DWO (Dorna in WorldSBK form) have created a class-within-a-class for the 2016 World Supersport Championship, and killed off the Superstock 600 European Championship at a stroke.
Dorna has...

Tom Sykes has gotten the 2016 World Superbike season underway in a three-day test at Motorland Aragon, running a hybrid ZX-10R based on the 2015 model but running significant new parts from the 2016...

24-year-old Brit Kyle Smith will ride for the CIA Landlords Insurance Honda team in World Supersport for the 2016 season, after signing for the team on Saturday (October 17).
The Brit, who rode with...